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Quotes About Education

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
~ James Callaghan
I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.
~ Christopher Gorham
By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents' books because there weren't teenage books then.
~ Judy Blume
I got to do school properly and all the stuff that you should do when you're young and teenage: first friends, first girlfriends. It wasn't like I needed to be doing acting.
~ George MacKay
I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I didn't read a lot of the seminal writers. Then I had two teenage daughters and was reading books on development and different issues.
~ Norbert Leo Butz
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
~ Danica McKellar
I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage years. But hacking is not my occupation, and I do not have any job within any intelligence, either Russian or some another.
~ Alexandra Elbakyan
In my early teenage years I wasn't doing well at school and I wasn't really interested in a way. I knew I wasn't going to go to uni or anything like that.
~ Adriano Zumbo
We know that if we can prevent kids from trying drugs in their teenage years, we dramatically reduce the likelihood that they will go on to have problems later in life.
~ John Walters
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
~ John Cale
I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.
~ Chloe Kim
I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!
~ Ludovico Einaudi
Even when I was on the football pitch as a teenager, I wanted to be the teacher.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
~ Daniel Tammet
I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I went to college, I forgot about it.
~ Caroline Polachek
I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.
~ Roger McGuinn
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
~ Graham Moore
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.
~ St. Lucia
When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.
~ John Lithgow
I'm hoping I can fill a gap by helping to advise people on acting mechanics - the kinds of things that, looking back, I would have really benefited from as a teenager.
~ Rachel Shenton
I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.
~ Sally Rooney
As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.
~ Laura van den Berg
Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?
~ Charles Platt
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.
~ Ruben Hinojosa